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Clay County Lake is a group of 3 lakes of 13-, 23-, and 38-acre (150,000 m 2) lakes located 1 mile (2 km) west of Delta on Alabama Highway 47. Clay County is a prohibition or dry county . DeKalb County Lake is a 120 acres (0.5 km 2 ) lake located 1 mile (2 km) north of Sylvania off County Road 47.
This is a list of rivers of the US state of Alabama. Alabama has over 132,000 [1] miles of rivers and streams with more freshwater biodiversity than any other US state. Alabama's rivers are among the most biologically diverse waterways in the world. 38% of North America's fish species, 43% of its freshwater gill-breathing snails, 51% of its freshwater turtle species, and 60% of its freshwater ...
Demopolis Lake: Tombigbee River [2] [5] Gantt Dam: Gantt Lake: Conecuh River: Goat Rock Dam and Generating Plant: Goat Rock Lake: Chattahoochee River: Guntersville Dam: Guntersville Lake: Tennessee River: Holt Lock and Dam: Holt Lake: Black Warrior River [2] [3] Howell Heflin Lock and Dam: Gainesville Lake: Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway: Jordan ...
The lake stretches 75 miles (121 km) from Guntersville Dam to Nickajack Dam. It is Alabama's largest lake at 69,100 acres (279.6 km 2). [1] It is separated by the Guntersville Dam from Wheeler Lake, which at 68,300 acres (276.4 km 2) is Alabama's second largest lake. Both lakes are part of the Tennessee River.
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Creating the manmade, 46,000-acre Walter F. George Lake also known as Lake Eufaula, in Eufaula, Alabama, required evacuating numerous communities, including the historically majority-Native American settlement of Oketeyeconne, Georgia. [11] The lakes were complete in 1963, covering over numerous historic and prehistoric sites of settlement. [12]
In the Appalachian Valley region the Coosa River is the principal river; and in the Piedmont Plateau, the Tallapoosa River. In the Coastal Plain are the Tombigbee River in the west, the Alabama River (formed by the Coosa and Tallapoosa) in the western central, and in the east the Chattahoochee River, which forms almost half of the Georgia boundary.
Alabama hosts 47 reservoirs larger than 500 acres (2.0 km 2) that cover 551,220 acres (2,230.7 km 2), 23 Alabama State Public Fishing Lakes, and 77,000 miles (124,000 km) of perennial rivers, streams and the Mobile Delta as well as over 60 miles (97 km) of shoreline along the Gulf Coast that provide fresh and saltwater fishing opportunity.